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MACROM 034CD
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This is the second album from Oliver Ho aka Raudive. When Messiaen set out to transcribe birds' songs as models for his compositions, he couldn't have predicted that by now wild birds would have started to learn mobile phone ringtone patterns. For A System of Objects, Raudive maps an obliquely constructed world in which you lose all certainty of what is nature and what is design. Raudive celebrates dance and auditory scenes as rituals, employing our surroundings as sources of ahistorical "found sound" -- primitive technologies used to reach magickal states. A drum machine and a wooden stick, a sawtooth-shaped electric current and a split rock all turn into empirical objects of the same class, without a definite past or a predictable impact. We have become dependent on technology we don't grasp beyond its display surface. Our statistics deceive us. Lost on reason, we are thrown back on the ritual to reveal the hidden relations of what surrounds us: the club as emblematic center of the emancipated individual, longing to bond with equals, again. One of the original British techno innovators in the 1990s, after 2006 Oliver Ho shifted gear with his Raudive alias towards slower, hypnotically bouncing rhythms. Various shades of darkness and acoustic/metallic found-sound sources shape the Raudive aesthetic. His records have appeared on labels such as Cocoon, Running Back, Pokerflat, Thema and on his own Wires imprint. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates + Mastering, Berlin. Includes a 20-page photo booklet.
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MACROM 031EP
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Raudive aka Oliver Ho heads home with two guilty dancefloor pleasures. Gritty surface, smooth bottom. For those damp, dimly-lit cellar clubs: low ceilings, fog, smoke, and all that. "Ruins" runs a relentless groove against angular guitar overtones, blowing out the valves of its amplifier. Metal sheets, rusty strings, sweaty bodies. "Visitor" is built on a naughty percussion sequence and is elevated by a morphed girl's inquiring voice straight out of a 1984 Shibuya version of Blade Runner. Kinky. Essential 2013.
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RB 038EP
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You can take the man out of the rave, but not the rave out of the man, Raudive's Traffic EP is a retro futuristic team of hermaphrodites. Four tracks that recall metal-dance, the genre that never was, as well as disco elements, house hints, a techno taste and wave wonders. A record made for Sven Väth and Trevor Jackson, with "Beams" already on heavy rotation with Dixon and Âme for a while now.
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MACROM 019CD
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Over the past 14 years, London's Oliver Ho aka Raudive has gathered a worldwide following with his research into deep techno, through his legendary Meta label and with his unique DJ gigs from New York to Berlin to Tokyo. Introducing the Raudive alias, he created a reduced, sexy, dancefloor-centered wave of greatness for labels from Drumcode to Cocoon. This sound turned out to be highly attractive for the DJs to play and for the girls and boys to dance to. The unparalleled appeal of his beats left the usual minimal competitors sounding rather dull. Thus, Raudive quickly became the blueprint of techno modernism with one of today's most influential genre-bending production styles. With his Cone and Paper EPs, he is now a key artist of the ever-brilliant Macro family, and just having launched his own new Wires imprint, the man is more than on fire. Forming the hallmark of the Raudive saga, Macro unleashes the highly-anticipated debut album, Chamber Music. This album is both claustrophobic in sound design, reminiscent of the dark and sweaty concrete club spaces this music inhabits, and carries acoustic qualities of induced instrumental experimentalism. Bitches Brew-voodoo reeds, New York no wave voices and European avant strings spin a mesmerizing, dark patina around the ultra-sexy year-3000-rhythms. No wonder there's huge DJ support all across the board -- from Miss Kittin to Surgeon to Sven Väth to Jeff Mills. Massive, deep edge and one of 2010's finest albums, so far.
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MACROM 017EP
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Raudive aka Oliver Ho drops one of Macro's most dancefloor-centered, future-forward outings so far. "Paper" -- the chord, the bass, the strings! All deep ingredients are there. "Brittle" is "Paper"'s evil sister and a giant step forward in groove design. Its repetitious patterns put any record to shame that has ever been called hypnotic. 2010 is right here. The EP is rounded off with the shimmering "Sienna" -- a no-beat melodic variation set against the warmth of grainy crackle.
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MACROM 009EP
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Under his Raudive alias, Oliver Ho has created a trademark blend of future-forward house and techno, with enthusiasm all across the board from Ricardo Villalobos to Sven Väth. His Macro debut, with its 3 cuts of twisted house, brings some serious madness to the club: Raudive's signature beats get a strong jazz infusion with bits of saxophone and piano spinning around the pumping bass line. Maximum dancefloor appeal.
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NUMMER 024EP
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"After great releases on his own label Meta Records and Blueprint, here comes Oliver Ho on Nummer under his new alias Raudive. He already released on labels like Klang, Poker Flat and Music Man. With his debut release on Nummer, he shows once more his distinctive style in working with vocals to create some mystical atmospheres. Enjoy!"
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KLANG 125EP
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Britain's finest, Oliver Ho aka Raudive delivers with Good Boy Bad Boy/Enter. Even if the vocal sample in the track claims the opposite, "Good Boy Bad Boy," with its evil creaking beat, sends you on a trip you'll never forget. "Enter" is a catchy melody, a drifting beat, a short voice sample and a second peaktime-burner for the dancers at the club.
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PFR 087EP
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Raudive aka Oliver Ho presents his amazing Zeitgeist EP. Oliver Ho explores techno and house in their many different styles, resulting in a hypnotic blend of techy house music that always comes paired with a funky attitude. "Zeitgeist" is dark, hypnotic and funky. Steve Bug remixes "Needles" and perfectly builds this track around a manic synth sound and a piano chord, before the hi-hats make this a funky floorshaker.
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KLANG 103EP
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"Another new face to be welcomed here at Klang Elektronik: Oliver Ho under his new alias Raudive. The British producer and DJ is best known from recordings on Blueprint and his own label Meta, where he created a hybrid of deep techno, house and electro over the last ten years. One of his trademarks is a very percussive orientated way of production which can be heard in the opening track 'Turn It Off'."
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